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Just in time for your annual hibernation, we recommend the 13 best literary adaptations of 2022. | Lit Hub Film & TV
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Jess Walter considers the Highsmithian principles of suspense. | Lit Hub Craft
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The best reviewed essay collections and poetry collections of 2022 (according to Book Marks). | Lit Hub
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“Sometimes I think about the fortunate writers who didn’t have to contend with our amplified level of distractions.” Priyanka Kumar on John Steinbeck, Sigrid Undset, and silencing the technology beast. | Lit Hub Tech
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In one of our very favorite Lit Hub traditions, Rabih Alameddine’s recommends the best (short) books he read in 2022. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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Nick Riggle on the mysterious beauty of being alive (with wisdom from Ocean Vuong). | Lit Hub Philosophy
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“A literary culture suffers, I think, if it avoids talking about value.” AGNI co-editor William Pierce addresses a fraught subject. | Lit Hub Criticism
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“I think the literary scene today is extremely diverse and exploratory.” Jane Smiley recommends reading widely (and in a hot tub). | New York Times
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A brief history and taxonomy of the literary tote bag… with one notable oversight. | The Walrus
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“The sheer diversity of the region’s poetry contributed to the festival atmosphere.” Dispatches from SoCal’s “poetry Coachella.” | Los Angeles Times
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Read new fiction by Oscar Schwartz. | HEAT
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“Shriver spends quite a lot of Abominations defending the freedom of the artist. But it is an open question whether she is really interested in art at all.” Kevin Power on Lionel Shriver’s contrarianism. | Dublin Review of Books
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Naomi Gordon-Loebl considers Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble in the age of Ron DeSantis. | The Nation
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“While a single book or trip reaches an inevitable end, world literature and circumnavigation are always incomplete projects.” Kevin Riordan on “around-the-world narratives.” | Public Books
Also on Lit Hub: In defense of forgotten classic Random Harvest on its 80th anniversary • Two poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini (tr. Cristina Viti) • Read from Jon Fosse’s newly translated collection, Septology (tr. Damion Searls)
